Senior Clinical Practitioner

Job description

Job responsibilities

Clinical Lead

3) To act as a clinical lead in the team, both informally when providing guidance to colleagues, and in Multi-Disciplinary Team meetings when crucial clinical decisions are being made.

a) To participate and contribute to team senior management meetings with Consultants, Lead Psychologists and Team Leader.

b) To attend meetings and forums, representing the team at various levels both within the Trust and with external agencies, ensuring that all staff are kept fully briefed on any new developments etc. The post-holder may be required to participate in specific interagency work relevant to the service.

Clinical Governance

To identify priorities for clinical audit in their area of responsibility

To take a lead in monitoring clinical outcomes and activity data from the work of the new team

To ensure the implementation of clinical protocols and guidelines

To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of the teams operational policies and services, through the deployment of professional skills in research, service evaluation and audit

To assist, in the integration and development of co-production, outcomes measures, and evidence-based treatment approaches in line with the wider strategy for service improvement

To investigate and act on complaints

To demonstrate enhanced levels of practice, competence and skills when supporting staff who are working with children/adolescents and families

To continue to develop skills in professional teaching, training to multidisciplinary teams and partner agencies (education, social care)

Engage in and respond to personal development supervision to improve com

Care Coordinating Responsibilities

Assessment: To formulate integrated needs assessments for service users requiring commissioned services and to monitor care packages as directed. To undertake risk assessments regularly, in liaison with all other health professionals and agencies involved. To ensure that risk assessments are regularly updated, are meaningful and are reflected in care plans.

Engagement: To assertively outreach difficult to engage service users. To meet service users regularly, to respond flexibly when agreeing venue, such as home visit, team base, education, work or recreational establishment to assist with engagement & encourage participation in treatment delivery as well as facilitating independence.

Support: To provide on-going care co-ordination within the CPA framework of a designated caseload of service users who are experiencing severe and enduring mental illness. To ensure that the Trust and Social Services CPA and Care Management protocols are followed and standards met. To provide support and advice in relation to service users regarding the issues concerning them. To work collaboratively with service users focussing on a recovery approach. Provide information to help service users make an informed choice about opportunities and services available to them and to then assist clients to obtain the required services, support and entitlement.

Interventions: To provide interventions relevant to patients under the Care Program Approach (CPA). To ensure all interventions are age appropriate and that care is sensitive to the needs of black and minority ethnic service users. To adopt a client centred approach embodied with the principles of the recovery model. To provide psychoeducation to services users. To co-facilitate, where agreed, therapeutic groups with a focus on service user rehabilitation reintegration and social inclusion.

Families and Carers: To involve families and carers in treatment plans where appropriate. This may require direct Family Intervention work. Ensuring services are provided within guidance of the Children & Families' Act and Care Act. To ensure that the needs of carers are assessed, and the care services are offered as necessary. To provide families and carers with psychoeducation.

Supervision and support:

The post-holder will line manage members of staff which will mainly consist of Care Coordinators. As an integrated services, the team supports both nursing and social workers within the generic care co-ordinator post. The post holder will ensure that each member of staff receive regular supervision and appraisal, and are offered essential and developmental training in accordance with their personal development plans and the needs of the service. The post holder will also follow the Trust policy as and when sickness or performance issues arise with supervisees.

a) The post holder will provide support and guidance to care coordinators, who are having difficulty with complex cases. This includes meeting clients with care coordinators.

b) The post holder will ensure that they have are able to prioritise their tasks so that they can support care coordinators to meet with high risk and/or complex clients.

Referral pathway:

To oversee the referral pathway within the team, this includes: helping to ensure that the team consistently meet the Waiting Time Standards, having oversight of referrals coming into the team, and helping to ensure that clients are discharged from the service per agreed care plan.

a) It is essential that the post holder develops a robust and competent understanding of the services eligibility criteria and supports clinicians in the service to develop their own understanding of the criteria.

b) The post holder will also assist the Team Leader in the allocation of cases to care coordinators.

Deputising:

To deputise on behalf of the Team Leader when the Team Leader is not present in the team. This includes undertaking tasks pertinent to the Team Leader role.

Management of Information and Communication:

To develop and maintain good communication between the multidisciplinary team and other agencies, those referring to the team such as GPs, other community teams, ward services and home treatment teams.

Personal Development and Responsibilities:

To ensure that they are fully aware of current developments and practice in their clinical area. The post holder will also make effective use of supervision with their line manager on a regular and agreed basis in being aware of the need to reflect on their practice both as clinician and manager.

a) To be aware of and adhere to all Trust Policies and act as a role model to other staff and meet the required professional standards for ongoing registration.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Registered Mental Health Nurse/Learning Disability/Social Work/OT
• Practice Assessor, Mentorship course (or other relevant teaching/assessment course)
• Experience in the direct line management of health or social care staff
• oEvidence of continuing professional development e.g. relevant training

Desirable

• Project management skills
• Dual Diagnosis Training
• CBT for Psychosis A Post qualification training/ provision of psychosocial interventions or related subject

Experience

Essential

• Working in a community setting
• oExperience of undertaking a leadership role
• oExperience of working with people experiencing severe and enduring mental illness
• oExperience of working in a CMHT
• oExperience of care coordination / case management
• oExperience of providing supervision in a clinical setting
• oExperience in managing safeguarding concerns and risk

Desirable

• oExperience of undertaking a service improvement/evaluation project
• oExperience of recruitment and selection of staff
• oExperience of using psycho-social interventions

knowledge/Skill

Essential

• oAbility to analyse complex issues/problems, provide guidance and make decisions
• oCompetent in providing clinical supervision
• oSkills in mental health and risk assessments
• oSkills in crisis management
• oAbility to provide care that is sensitive to the needs of minority groups
• Effectively manage a clinical caseload, complete outcomes measures routinely, update clinical records in line with team, service and Trust requirements
• oExcellent verbal and written communication skills
• oSkilled in the use of ICT, particularly Microsoft Office
• oExperience of using psycho-social interventions

Desirable

• oExperience of carrying out CBT
• oExperience of Group facilitation
• oExperience of Change management
• oExperience of Clinical Governance and Evidence Based Practice

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Queens Resource Centre

Queens Road

Croydon

CR0 2PR

Employer's website

https://www.slam.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)